Progress Going Up
by Lionel Bascom — January 25th, 2007 — 1 comment
You don’t need a hard hat,” the Times says. “You don’t even need a pass to see for yourself what kind of progress they are making at Ground Zero, New York Magazine says. How you rate that progress will depend on who you talk to … The New York Times gives you step-by-step instructions on how to witness that progress. “Stand on Vesey Street, between Greenwich and Washington Streets. Look through the chain-link fences and over the Jersey barriers. The tops of six columns of the tower’s south perimeter are now visible, sprouting from the depths of ground zero. A seventh column, standing alone nearby, is where the Freedom Tower’s east plaza will be … the Times said
“They are visible from the sidewalk now because a second tier of steel has been added to each column, bringing them up to about 8 feet below street level.”
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Witnessing progress through a chain link fence brings to mind fond memories of my childhood in Detroit. Between each house was a chain link fence. Each house lot represented a different manner of living through this life. I would place my small face between each woven piece of metal and feel my world blend with the one on the other side of the fence, and for that brief moment, I transcended time and space. Closing my eyes, I could leave worries behind and fill my mind with hopeful dreams.
As one views this construction from the links of a chain fence, time and space become obscure in the witnessing of simultaneous pain and pleasure that coexist in carrying on with life.
However, in seeing truth…sometimes, the pain is unbearable. Sometimes, there is no pleasure. Sometimes, it’s truly a struggle ‘hanging in there.’
Jeanne · January 25th, 2007 at 10:32 pm